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Creative Communities: Great Public Spaces Strategy Evolution Creative Communities: Great Public Spaces Strategy Evolution Philadelphia December 4, 2015 Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Why do we prioritize and invest in public space? How do we select our public space investments? How did WPF’s local efforts set stage for Reimagining the Civic Commons? Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Great Learning Creative Communities Watershed Protection Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Arts/Culture Arts Education Great Public Spaces New Audiences/ Core Support ($3,000,000/yr.) ($16,000,000/yr.) New Places ($9,000,000/yr.) ($7,000,000/yr.) Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Policy and Projects and Systems Change Practice “Implementation is policy” Jeremy Nowak Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Independence Mall Logan Square Franklin Square Ben Franklin Parkway Schuylkill Banks Chestnut Street Park Sister Cities Plaza Dilworth Park Race Street Pier Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution ”The making of an urban outdoor oasis.” - New York Times Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution The success and impact of the Foundation’s past public space investments between 2001-11 laid the groundwork for the Great Public Spaces strategy that was launched in 2013. WPF invested over $25 million in public space improvements in Center City between 2001-11. Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution The early premise going forward was to build on the historic public space framework of Center City and leverage the success of our own investments over the prior decade... Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution …and extend that success outward into the rapidly changing urban core beyond Center City… Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution What emerged was a very place-based and targeted public space planning framework seeking to create a system of interconnected public space investments extending out to the communities surrounding Center City. Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Through a planning process aided by a consulting firm we identified a series of targeted major project areas or “landscapes” for potential future investment. North Delaware Penn Treaty Park East/West Park East Park Reservoir Spring Garden Greenway Petty’s Island Camden Greenway Schuylkill Delaware Riverfront Riverfront Lower Delaware Washington Avenue South Wetlands Park Lower Schuylkill Greenway Bartram’s Garden/Mile Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Initial Strategy Goal/Aims: • Invest in the development and revitalization of parks, trails, and public spaces that enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods outside of Center City • Support the planning and development of new and revitalized public spaces that increase green space in under-served communities • Support high quality programming to activate and animate existing public spaces • Enhance the performance of existing public space and support the repurposing of existing public assets as new public space amenities • Encourage the use of data to improve public space management as well as sustainable operations and maintenance best practices Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Parisians build parks for Parisians and tourists love them… Philadelphians build parks for tourists 14 and Philadelphians hate them…Laurie Olin Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution The planning process documented the challenges and obstacles to achieving the vision of a new system of interconnected public amenities. Incomplete Connections Underutilized Public Space Underutilized Public Space No Public Riverfront Access Incomplete Key Trail Gaps Trails Incomplete Connections Incomplete Trails No Public Isolated Riverfront Access Public Space Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution We studied all prior planning (much of which we funded)… 16 Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution …and our planning consultant to help us identify… Overview Field Notes Proposals & Precedents Audit Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution …and prioritize priority projects (with and emphasis on readiness)… Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution …and sequenced them on what we thought was a reasonable and realistic schedule at that time (strategy goal: complete the “system”). Candidate Projects (subject to change) 1 Bartram’s Garden / Mile 2 Delaware Trail North 0-3 Years 3 Central Delaware River Trail 4 Centennial Commons 5 East Park Reservoir 6 Spring Garden Greenway 7 Lower Schuylkill Trail West 8 Camden Greenway 4-6 Years 9 Pier 53/Pier 68 10 Penn Treaty Park 11 Parkway West End 12 Petty’s Island 13 Christian Street Extension 7-10 Years 14 Reading Viaduct Phase 1 15 Grays Ferry Crossing 16 Penn’s Landing 10 Years + 17 Washington Ave. Greenway Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution However, for a range of reasons, more than half of our original priority projects are now in various stages of implementation, including some “reach” projects that we thought were much longer term. Candidate Projects (subject to change) 1 Bartram’s Garden / Mile 2 Delaware Trail North 0-3 Years 3 Central Delaware River Trail 4 Centennial Commons 5 East Park Reservoir 6 Spring Garden Greenway 7 Lower Schuylkill Trail West 8 Camden Greenway 4-6 Years 9 Pier 53/Pier 68 10 Penn Treaty Park 11 Parkway West End 12 Petty’s Island 13 Christian Street Extension 7-10 Years 14 Reading Viaduct Phase 1 15 Grays Ferry Crossing 16 Penn’s Landing 10 Years + 17 Washington Ave. Greenway Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Why we got it wrong… • Imaginative, strong, and effective public sector leadership (Deputy Mayor Michael DiBerardinis; First Deputy Commissioner Mark Focht) • Foundation grantees demonstrated an unexpected degree of fundraising prowess and ability to leverage WPF funding (Fairmount Park Conservancy, DRWC) • The unanticipated passage of the new state transportation funding bill, Act 89, in 2013 • The Knight Foundation-sponsored Civic Commons Initiative injected significant and, again, unanticipated, supply of capital funding into a several GPS priority projects • New gubernatorial administration has prioritized the $250MM Penn's Landing Redevelopment project – an effort that we thought was entirely aspirational • Finally, it is a worth noting that the GPS strategy planning occurred in 2011-12 when the economy was still just emerging from the Great Recession and the general feeling was one of scarcity and significantly lower expectations Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution What we probably got right… • The strategy (it was really a “plan”) was result of an extensive and detailed planning process • We focused on a narrow set of targeted priorities • We said “no” a lot in the early going • We picked projects that already had some degree of momentum or a constituency • We highly ranked “project readiness” as a key prioritization factor • We created a investment framework that was highly legible and rationale (people “got it”) • We extensively tested the idea with other funders, experts, and decision makers Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Strategy Evolution and Maturation: What We’ve Learned Through Practice Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution Strategy Evolution and Maturation: What We’ve Learned Through Practice A Few Framing Thoughts: We started out with an interest in promoting public space, but in reality what we ended up really doing is promoting public life. We have been building parks, trails, and public spaces, but what we really have been building is community. The biggest thing we missed was undervaluing the power of the relationship between community space and community identity. Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution What We’ve Learned Through Practice • Leveraging public space to promote greater connectivity and reduce community isolation; shifting from exclusive goal of “connected system” to “community connectivity”. • Accompanied by a somewhat subtle shift from a generalized goal of enhancing local quality of life to a more specific focus on equity of access. • A more explicit focus on the creation of “shared civic spaces” that function as platforms that promote greater social and community integration (Knight Fdn, Reimagining the Civic Commons) Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution What We’ve Learned Through Practice • Recognition that public space design, civic engagement processes, and placemaking and historic preservation activities themselves can all be important tools in promoting community empowerment and civic leadership (Surdna, Community-based Design) • Building on roles in promoting shared civic spaces, community empowerment, and community organizing there seems to be a real and important role for GPS to play mitigating the negative impacts of community change and conserving community identity by helping to manage its (inevitable) evolution in a positive way. Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution What We’ve Learned Through Practice: • Neighborhood school campuses are potentially powerful opportunities for community organizing and engagement (Trust for Public Land, organic examples) • Growing research on the relationship between play and learning, creating a major opportunity to enrich GPS outcomes (Solomon, Hirsch, Nature Play) • Themes relating to play and learning and a city for all ages point to a focus on the value and development of multi- and inter- generational public spaces as an important, ultimate (Solomon, Karlawish) Great Public Spaces: Strategy Evolution What We’ve Learned Through Practice: • Potential to exploit the Circuit as an “urban amenity” and a unique, competitive asset for the city (Greenberg; Resort Cities) • Expanding access to the Circuit for
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